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George Baloghy is a Prominent New Zealand artist. He is painter, prefering to pain with oil on canvas.
He was born in 1950 in Budapest and emigrated to New Zealand in 1956 as a refugee. He was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and at the University of Auckland from which he graduated Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1977. He has had 25 major exhibitions commencing in 1978.
Baloghy's style can be called a particualr kind of realism, where major elements are altared and shifted around for dramatic effect. Some of these paintings are close to fiction, yet attempt to narrate a greater truth of the feeling of place. The realism depicted has been described by John Daly-People as being more like paintings of models of the landscape. Heightened edges and colours produce a sharpness of detail and an atmosphere that is at once familiar, yet faintly alien.
Baloghy lives and works in Auckland and Hahei Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula.